A teenage ‘boy in a skirt’ who identifies as ‘pansexual’ has been found guilty for two sexual attacks on school girls
In May 2021, a teenage girl was raped in a girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County in Ashburn, Virginia, by a ‘skirt-wearing’ male student in May 2021.
On 6th of October, after changing schools because of the incident, the boy dragged another girl into a classroom and inappropriately touched her. The incidents ignited fury over transgender policies and the ability of students to identify themselves as transgender of gender-fluid.
On Wednesday, Loudoun County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Chief Judge Pamela Brooks found the teenager responsible in the two cases. Brooks said it was the first time she had been forced to ask a juvenile to register as a sex offender. She noted that she had agreed to do so because of the request by prosecutors Barry Zweig and Buta Bibera.
Zweig said he made the request because the boy had committed a second assault after he’d already been charged with the first.
Juvenile probation officer for Loudoun County, Jason Bickmore, prepared the recommendation for the judge based in part on psychological testing. Mr Bickmore had not recommended that the boy register as a sex offender, telling Brooks, “If we’re treating him as a juvenile, with rehabilitation as the goal,” as is traditional in juvenile court, “I’m concerned we would also be labelling him for a lifetime.”
The cases have ignited massive cultural and political debate in Loudoun County and across the U.S.
Following the attack last year, Gov-elect Glenn Youngkin called for an investigation into the county school board’s response to the sexual attacks during his successful campaign, while Virginia Attorney General-elect Jason Miyares said he had plans to conduct that probe.
‘Dangerous animals deserve to be caged’
Before Brooks announced the verdict, the juvenile equivalent of a sentence, the victim of the first assault, who is now 16, took the stand, addressing the defendant by name and told her attacker: “I’m still here. I believe you belong in a program, even though you took advantage of me.”
The victim’s father, Scott Smith testified, “You voluntarily took what you wanted. That makes you a dangerous animal. Dangerous animals deserve to be caged, sometimes even put down.” While he was speaking, the attacker’s mother cried, shaking uncontrollably.
Reports state that towards the end of the victim’s father’s statement, his tone ‘changed markedly’ as he told the attacker that he could change. Mr Smith appeared to show compassion to the young attacker, stating: “You could change. I don’t believe that you’re a monster. I thought you looked like a monster, but you really don’t.” He said that when he was the defendant’s age, he himself had been sent to a residential facility – although he didn’t say why. He also told the defendant, “Please, dude — do the right thing, man. I can see in your eyes, you know you did wrong.”
Before the judge announced her decision, the defendant stood, wearing an ankle chain over new white trainers. Maintaining his identity as a transgender individual, he pleaded guilty to contest to two counts of forced sodomy – admitting that he had raped the girl. He was sentenced to a ‘locked residential programme’ and ordered to register as a sex offender.
‘Loudoun County protects rapists’
There has been a significant level of anger because of the fact that the skirt-wearing boy was simply transferred to another school after the rape of his first victim, and mere months later, was enabled to re-offend again.
In the second case, he was charged ‘with sexual battery and abduction’. In that case, he allegedly held a different girl in a classroom to attack her in Broad Run High School – a mere 2.5miles from the high school where Smith’s daughter was assaulted.
Mr Smith’s attorney says prosecutors told her it was the same child as was involved in the case with Smith’s daughter.
Referencing the initial dismissal of Mr Scott’s concerns about the boy and Loudoun County’s gender fluid policies, his attorney said: “If someone would have sat and listened for thirty seconds to what Scott had to say, they would have been mortified and heartbroken.”
The attorney added he does not know if the boy identifies as female, is bisexual, or was taking advantage of the system.
“I don’t care if he’s homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, transsexual. He’s a sexual predator,” he said.
It is unclear why the boy in question was in the different school, where the second assault allegedly took place on October 6, when he had apparently been in talks with prosecutors to agree to a deal for the May 28 assault against Smith’s daughter.
Loudoun County has refused to say whether or not he was ever suspended or excluded from the school system.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the October 6 incident, saying in a press release on October 7: “A teenager from Ashburn has been charged with sexual battery and abduction of a fellow student at Broad Run High School.
“The investigation determined on the afternoon of October 6, the 15-year-old suspect forced the victim into an empty classroom where he held her against her will and inappropriately touched her.”
On 26th October, 20 days after the second assault after which police were called and the boy was arrested, students staged a walkout of their classrooms in a show of ‘solidarity’ for the victim. Some pupils stood in front of their school, chanting, ‘Loudoun County protects rapists!’
The protest came just one day after the boy was found guilty for the sexual assault on the 28th of May at Stone Bridge High School. In the initial case, the judge ‘substantiated’ charges of forcible sodomy and forcible fellatio, the juvenile equivalent of a conviction.
The first victim’s father, Mr Smith, has said that his family have been confronted by activists for speaking out against trans policies that allow biological males to share bathrooms with females, opening the door wide to assaults of this kind. He has previously said that he believes ‘our children are not safe’ because of such policies.
School board ‘ignored’ concerns: Transgender policies ‘not problematic’
Despite the bewildering cases, the school board of Loudoun County maintained that its transgender policies were not problematic. During a meeting, held just one month after the first sex assault, the board stated that gender-fluid bathrooms were not a problem.
Mr Smith reacted with fury and was dragged out of the meeting after listening to the ‘woke’ school board justify its transgender bathroom policies. He says he was trying to tell the room that his daughter had been devastatingly raped by a boy ‘wearing a skirt’ in the girls’ bathroom just weeks earlier and that the school board had ignored it. He was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Commenting on the debacle, he said he believed the incident could have been handled differently, and that emotions were running high following the recent assault of his daughter: “This didn’t have to happen. This could have been handled a lot differently.”
Mr Smith said that when he tried to explain what happened to his daughter at the meeting, his concerns were dismissed, with other parents refusing to listen and disputing his claims that his young daughter was sexually assaulted by the boy who identified as a girl.
Mr Smith this week spoke of his relief at the boy being sentenced – and his anger at being convicted for disorderly conduct as he appealed for the school to take the case seriously. The father was filmed being dragged out of the school board meeting on 22nd of June 2021 – just one month after the chilling attack on his daughter, after listening to school officials claiming ‘no one has been sexually assaulted’ in the school bathrooms. This was despite the fact his daughter had reported being raped the previous month – she has now been vindicated in court.
In October, the mother of the convicted boy claimed that her son doesn’t identify as a female, and that his skirt was used as a disguise to slip into the girl’s bathroom. Reports, however, state that the boy has declared he is ‘pansexual’- which is defined by the LGBTQ movement as a sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender. Those who are pansexual may refer to themselves as ‘gender-blind’ in an assertion that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.
“He would wear a skirt one day and then the next day, he would wear jeans and a t-shirt, a Polo or hoodie,” his mother told The Daily Mail, adding that he was “trying to find himself.”
“He was trying to find himself and that involved all kinds of styles. I believe he was doing it because it gave him attention he desperately needed and sought.”
The boy’s mother concedes that her son is deeply troubled, and acknowledges his extensive history of misbehaviour that has included sending nude photos of himself to a girl in fifth grade. It is believed the boy’s father lives in New Jersey, apart from the mother and son.
She told the media that her son’s actions had “broken” and “shattered” her, and said that her son had no idea of the extent of what he had done to his mother and family.
The Loudoun County school board has been routinely accused of promoting an ultra-liberal agenda on children and parents – and silencing those who disagree with them.
The girl’s father, Mr Smith, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that while he was relieved, there were further legal issues ahead.
“Man, we’re relieved,” Smith said, adding: “We’re able to put one felony assault behind us, and start the next one next week.” He told Fox News that he is now moving on to another case because his daughter was physically assaulted at school last year after the sexual attack.
Asked what he meant, the 48-year-old plumber explained to Carlson: “Well, unfortunately, our daughter was physically assaulted the first week of school when she returned this year, and that one was mishandled as well.
“Ninety days later we finally got charges. That court case starts next week. It’s a felony malicious wounding case.”